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type: "Bill"
title: "Admission to bail; human trafficking."
description: "Adds the charges of (i) taking or detaining a person for the purposes of prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse, (ii) receiving money from procuring or placing a person in a house of prostitution or forced labor, (iii) receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute, and (iv) commercial sex trafficking to the list of crimes for which there is a rebuttable presumption against admission to bail."
jurisdiction: "us/states/va"
legislature: "Virginia General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 1260"
citation: "Virginia HB 1260 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses Generally", "Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Michael P. Mullin"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-03-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ec3642b-5542-4184-a295-193d50556408"
source_url: "http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+sum+HB1260"
source_hash: "77556998b981e8b45c35e2b7fd6366b18dc8658146fe78f43a3d689896a28fc6"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-va"]
---
# Virginia HB 1260 (2018) — Admission to bail; human trafficking.
Adds the charges of (i) taking or detaining a person for the purposes of prostitution or unlawful sexual intercourse, (ii) receiving money from procuring or placing a person in a house of prostitution or forced labor, (iii) receiving money from the earnings of a prostitute, and (iv) commercial sex trafficking to the list of crimes for which there is a rebuttable presumption against admission to bail.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1260ER)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1260ER)
2. **House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102345D** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1260)
3. **House: Printed as engrossed 18102345D-E** (committee substitute) — [source](http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?181+ful+HB1260E)
## Votes
- Passed Senate — **400** (pass) · legislature
- Constitutional reading dispensed — **380** (pass) · legislature
- Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments — **80** (pass) · legislature
- Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE — **980** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice — **120** (pass) · legislature
- Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments — **180** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Michael P. Mullin — primary (person)
- Dawn M. Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Kathleen Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Kathy K.L. Tran — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-10** Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/18 18102345D `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1 `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** Read first time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** Read second time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-01** Committee amendments agreed to
- **2018-02-01** Engrossed by House as amended HB1260E
- **2018-02-01** Printed as engrossed 18102345D-E
- **2018-02-02** Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N) `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-02-05** Constitutional reading dispensed
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** Read third time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Enrolled
- **2018-02-21** Signed by Speaker
- **2018-02-23** Signed by President
- **2018-02-26** Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on February 26, 2018
- **2018-02-26** Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, March 5, 2018
- **2018-03-02** Approved by Governor-Chapter 71 (effective 7/1/18) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ec3642b-5542-4184-a295-193d50556408`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Virginia legislature records).